Reinforced concrete construction and method of constructing the same



I. S. WILLIAMS.

REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUGHON AND METHOD OF CONSTBUCTING THE SAME.

APPLICATION flLED JAN. 21,1933.

- Patented July 22, 1919.

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J. S. WILLIAMS.

REINFURCED CONCRETE CGNSTRUCTION AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2!,1913. 1,310,462. Patented July 22, 1919.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOOIIAPII c0.. WASHINGTON, n c

UNITED STATES OFFICE.

JOSEPH STOKES WILLIAMS, 0]? RIVERTON, NEW JERSEY.

REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION AND METHOD OI GONSTBUCTING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed March 3, 1909, Serial No. 481,070. Patent No, 1,051,043. Divided and this application filed January 21, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH STOKES WIL- LIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverton, in the county of Burlington, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Reinforced Concrete Construction and Method of Constructing the Same, of which the following is a specification.

In my copending application, Serial No. 481,070, filed by me on the 3rd day of March, 1909, and of which the present case is a division, I have described and broadly claimed, methods and apparatus for establishing concrete construction in and about waterways or on the shore, which is especially adapted for establishing wall and foundation construction, and my present invention is also designed to be employed for the above purpose whereby the construction may be established with great rapidity and economy over the methods heretofore employed for such work.

In In present invention, I have devised a nove method of establishing Walls or foundation to any desired depth below the surface, and wherein I am enabled to progressively excavate and fill the excavated space with concrete as rapidly as excavated, and thus provide a homogeneous unit of concrete construction having any desired nature of reinforcement therein.

By my novel method, walls may be established along waterways to prevent undercutting at such points or along the banks or for pier, wharf, or tunnel foundations.

It further consists of the novel method wherein the space to be excavated is suitably chambered and after the concrete has been placed, the chambering means is preferably removed, although the same or any portion thereof can remain in place if desired to form additional reinforcements.

It further consists of a novel method. wherein the space to be excavated may be chambered by piling, the space so chambered excavated and then filled with concrete, and the chambering piles being preferably withdrawn for further use prior to the setting of the concrete.

Other objects of my invention will more clearly hereinafter appear in the detailed description of my invention. I

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying Serial No. 743,237.

drawings one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various lnstrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view showing one manner in which my novel method may be carried out.

Fig. 2 represents a perspective view, partially interrupted, of an embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 3 represents a perspective view partly in section, showing another manner in whic 1 my novel method may be carried into practice.

Figs. 4 and 5 represent respectively perspective views of other embodiments of my invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings Referring first to the embodiment seen in Fig. 1, two floatable and sinkable supports 1 are illustrated, provided with controllable conduits 2, whereby the floatability may be adjusted by varying the ballast, as for example, by admitting fluid into the support through the conduits 2 to sink the same to any desired extent. The supports 1 are provided with conduits 3 controlled in any desired manner and through which tubes may be passed to suction dredge the bed or to discharge concrete to such bed. 4 designates an intermediate form or mold which is provided with ports 5 and 6 through which tubes may be passed to suction dredge the bed or to discharge concrete thereto. 7 designates guides on which a frame 8 is adjustably mounted in order to vertically adjust cutting members 9, shown in the present instance, as comprising two spaced members which are laterally movable and in order to adjust their height, a hydraulic piston 10 is provided. The cutting plates 9 have therebetween a. partition or dividing member 11, thereby forming compartments in one of which is adapted to extend excavating mechanism of any desired type, but shown, in the present instance, as consistin of the conduits 12 for suction dredging. n theother side of the partition 11 is located means for laying concrete, shown in the present instance, as comprising a conduit 13 whereby concrete may be placed in an excavated space. The construction seen in Figs. 2 and 3 is adapted to be used, if desired, between the cutting plates 9. 14 designates a double row of guides in order to aline the different organisms just described as being employed in the establishment of the concrete construction. The guides 14 may have, if desired, located therebetween, the construction of piling, such as is illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.

Referring now to Fig. 2, 15 designates a double row of sheet piling preferably interlocking and provided with intermediate partitioning members 16 which preferabl interlock with the rows of piling 15. 17 d esignates excavating mechanism shown as consisting of a tube, in the present instance, while 18 designates concrete laying mechanism such as, for example, the tub-e shown.

In the embodiment seen in Fig. 3, 19 designates tubular piling preferably rectangular in cross section and provided with a cutting edge 20 and also with a guided or alining member 21 of any desired character. These pilings may be multiplied in any direction to provide a continuous solid formation of concrete below or in the bed or adjoining.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that I provide spaced piling, tubular piling or other hollow structure, in which successive pairs or mated sections are sunk, excavated, filled with concrete, and the iling bein removed to allow contact and joining of the soft concrete when the required filing has been obtained. It will, of course, be understood that any desired reinforcement 22 may be laced in the concrete prior to the setting t ereof.

In carrying out my novel method, the space to be concreted is chambered, then ex cavated. and then as the further work of excavation is carried on, the concrete is progressively placed in the chambered and excavated sections and the chambering means employed is then withdrawn prior to the setting of the concrete, it being seen that the walls of the excavation serve as the walls of the mold.

The piles may be driven in place and moved therefrom by any desired and well known or conventional type of mechanism and since the same is well known per 86 in the art, I have deemed it unnecessary to illustrate the same.

It will also be apparent that the cuttin plates 9 may be longitudinally advance along the line of work as such work progresses and owing to the provision of the fioatable supports and formers 1 and 4, it will be apparent that the ace formed therebetween may be filled wit concrete to any desired height above the bed of the waterway since the sides of such floatable supports will serve as molds to limit and form the concrete.

Any desire-d type of trailer or former may be carried between the supports in order to level and define the height of the concrete Wall above the bed of the waterway.

It will thus be apparent that in accordance with my present method, a concrete wall may be rapidly and economically established which will extend to any desired height above the bed of the waterway and to any desired depth below the bed of the waterway in accordance with requirements and condltions met with in practice.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the chambering means are adapted to be vertically withdrawn, while in Fig. 1 the chambering means may be Withdrawn from the line of work either vertically or longitudinally.

It will of course be understood that where I refer to the term concrete the same is to be broadly construed as including concrete, cement or other binding material in conjunction with which any desired type of reinforcements may be employed.

In Figs. 4: and 5, I have shown different manners of reinforcing the area bed, it being understood that the entire area of the bed may be reinforced as will be understood by reference to Fig. 4. Certain portions of the bed may be reinforced with concrete and surrounded by other portions of the bed in its natural condition which have not been filled in with concrete. The method corresponds to that seen in Figs. 2 and 3 in that a series of piles are driven into the bed to cover the area to be concreted and these piles may consist of interlockin sections, as shown, and after these have een located in the bed, a pile thus formed is excavated by means of any desired type of an excavator, and in the present instance, I have shown a pipe 23 which indicates a fluid excavator, such as a. suction pipe, and 24 indicates a concrete laying mechanism, such as a conduit for conducting concrete into the piles. After a pile has been suction dredged, it is filled with concrete and then the pile is withdrawn and the work thus progresses until the area of the bed is reinforced with a omogeneous mass of concrete. In Fig. 5, I show an outer row of hollow piles 25, which are braced by the transverse rows of piles 26 and 27, thereb leavin the spaces 28 of the bed which, a ter the hollow piles have been excavated, filled with concrete and withdrawn will form a concrete wall within the bed which surrounds portions of the bed which have not been dredged or concreted.

It will thus be apparent that my novel method provides means for reinforcl any desired area of the bed, in a very rapi and efliclent manner. y

It will be ap arent from the foregoing disclosure that I ongitudinally cut a channel in the earth bed and simultaneouslytherewith fill the concrete into the cut channel to any desired height. For this purpose, I employ bed cutting and chamberlng organism supported and alined along the line of work and adapted to be advanced as the work progresses, and simultaneously with the cutting and excavating of the earth bed, the concrete is placed in the excavated space posterior to the part being excavated. In accordance with my Egesent invention, I can reinforce the earth d by one or ore concrete walls extending thereinto, an extendin to any desired height above the earth be and such walls may be utilized either to prevent undercutting of the earth bed or to serve as a foundation for any desired construction, or prevent shifting of the bed of the channel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method of laying concrete, which consists in longitudinally moving in the earth bed of a waterway channel forming means and forming a channel in the earth bed, and excluding water from the channel in the rear of the channel forming means, by filling concrete from above the water level through a conducting channel into the channel in the earth bed.

2. The method of lay'ng concrete, which consists in longitudinally moving in the earth bed of a waterway, channel forming means and forming a channel in. the earth bed, maintaining molds along the'ehannel and the earth bed, and excluding water from the channel in the rear of the forming means by filling concrete from above the water level through a conducting channel into the channel in the earth bed and to a desired height against said molds, and maintaining a filling of concrete to a desired height in rear of the channel forming means.

3. The method of forming concrete walls, which consists in inserting means into the earth bed to define the walls of the channel to be formed and to separate the channel to be formed from the portion in rear of it, excavating the material anterior to the separation to form an open-headed channel with vertically disposed side walls, filling concrete into the channel posterior to the separation and maintaining the filling of concrete in plastic condition against said separation and the side walls of the cut channel adjacent to said means, and advancing said means longitudinally in the earth bed as the work progresses.

4. The method of forming concrete walls, which consists in inserting means into the earth bed to define the walls of the channel to be formed and to separate the channel to be formed from the portion in rear of it, cxcavating the material anterior to the separa tion to form an open-headed channel with vertically disposed side walls, filling concrete into the channel posterior to the separation and maintaining the filling of concrete in plastic condition against said separation and the side walls of the cut channel adjacent to said means, and advancing said means longitudinally in the earth bed as the work progresses, and limiting the height of the concrete so placed.

5. The method of forming a concrete wall, which consists in supporting channel form ing means on a support, adjusting the clianso nel forming means relatively to the support to cause it to extend into the earth bed, advancing the channel forming means longitudin ally in the earth bed and forming a channel with vertically projected side walls, filling concrete into the channel in rear of the channel forming means, limiting thelateral flow of concrete in said channel by the walls of the channel and limiting the forward flow of concrete in said channel in advance of the concrete filling to form a homogeneous concrete wall between the side walls of the channel in rear of the channel forming means.

6. The method of forming a concrete wall, which consists in supporting channel forming means on a support, adjusting the height of the support relatively to the earth bed to cause the channel forming means to extend into the earth bed, advancing the channel forming means longitudinally in the earth bed and forming a channel with vertically projected side walls, filling concrete into the channel and limiting the lateral flow of the concrete in the channel by the walls of the channel and limiting the forward flow of the concrete in the channel in advance of the concrete filling to form a homogeneous concrete wall between the side walls of the channel in rear of said channel forming means.

7. The method of forming concrete walls, which consists in supporting channel forming means on a float, varying the floatability of the float to adjust the channel forming means with respect to the earth bed, advancing the float and the channel forming means 115 longitudinally and forming the channel in the earth bed, excluding water from the portion of the channel in rear of the channel forming means by filling concrete into such portion of the channel, and maintaining a 120 predetermined height of concrete filling in such portion of the channel.

8. The method of forming concrete walls, which consists in supporting channel forming means on a float, varying the fioatability 125 of the float, advancing the float to move the channel forming means longitudinally in the earth bed, and forming the channel in the earth bed, excluding water from the channel in the rear of said channel forming means 130 by fillin concrete thereinto, and maintaining a filing of concrete in said portion of the channel to the top and surface of the bed, and molding the concrete above the surface of the earth bed by the contour of the float.

9. The method of forming concrete walls, which consists in forming spaced, lon 'tudinally extending channels in the cart bed, by simultaneously moving longitudinally in the earth bed spaced organisms to cut and support the Walls of the earth bed and support a filling of concrete, excavating the earth bed to form open-headed channels with vertically disposed walls, and filling concrete into the channels in the rear of said organisms, and maintaining a filling of concrete against the rear of said cutting or-- ganisms and against the walls of the excavated channels.

10. The method of forming concrete Walls, which consists in dredging the bed, supporting channelforming means in alinement along said bed, inserting said channel forming means into the earth bed to a desired depth, advancing the channel forming means longitudinally in the earth bed and formin a vertically disposed open-headed channe excluding water from the channel by filling concrete into it, and maintaining a filling of plastic concrete in rear of the channel formin means as the channel forming means is a vanced.

11. The method of forming concrete Walls in an earth bed, which consists in moving an organism longitudinally along the line of work to cut an open-headed channel with vertically disposed side Walls in the earth bed, maintaining a separation between the earth bed to be out and the cut channel, and maintaining a filling of plastic concrete in the cut channel against the separation to a predetermined height as the organism is advanced.

12. The method of forming a plurality of concretewalls in an earth bed, which consists in floating a support into alinement with the work to be completed, supporting bed cutting, channel forming and supporting, concrete placing, and spacing organism on said support, varying the floatability of said support to lposition said organism along the line of wor actuating the or nism to out, excavate and form open-hea ed channels with vertically disposed side Walls in the earth bed, placing concrete in such channels, and maintaining a filling in the portions of the channel in rear of said organism so as to exclude Water therefrom.

13. The method of forming concrete walls in an earth bed, which consists in moving an organism longitudinally along the line of work and cutting a channel in the earth bed, and maintaining a cuttin and opening in the advance portion of the c iannel, and 1naintaining a separation from such advance portion and the portion of the channel in the rear, and maintaining a fillin of concrete in the channel in rear of the advance portion as the organism is advanced, and to exclude water from such rear portion of the channel.

JQSEPH STOKES WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

H. S. FAIRBANKS, C. D. MGVAY.

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